Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Not the Jam tune, but getting its inspiration from the same source. David Bowie recorded this song for the 1986 adaptation of the Colin MacInnes book about 1950s youth in London. The movie was a bit of a disappointment for me: too stylized and affected. Bowie had a small part, unconnected to this tune.

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Why Dot Dot Dot?

That is, where did this blog get its name?

Dot Dot Dot is Morse code for the letter 'S,' the full message Guglielmo Marconi claimed to have received atop Signal Hill in St. John's in 1901. It ushered in the age of telecommunications. My maternal grandfather worked as a telegraph operator for Canadian Marconi on Signal Hill for many years.
As well, I have a habit of overusing the ellipsis when I write ... as frequent readers might notice.